Maya® Studio Projects Texturing and Lighting

Project: Painting Grass

To add plant life to the ambulance scene, you can paint several Paint Effects strokes. Following the steps in the previous section, choose the Cactus Grass Paint Effects brush (in the Grasses folder) and paint on the hill surface. Make your strokes fairly short, as multiple individual plants are spaced along the stroke. Initially, the plants will appear too small. You can adjust the size, and other render properties, through the brush tab in the Attribute Editor. You can access the tab by selecting a stroke node in the Hypergraph. The tab is to the right of the strokeShape tab and is named after the brush type (for example: cactusGrass1). Note that each stroke receives its own brush node, and thereby its own set of attributes. ...